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The Portuguese policeman was later taken off the case. US criminal profiler Pat Brown is also set to appear on the programme.

She claimed recently that Maddie is 'dead' and her body was moved to a 'desolate location' where it will never be found.

It comes after the new Metropolitan police boss Cressida Dick said she is very interested in the ongoing investigation, adding: 'I don’t know when it will finish.'

In an interview on LBC, she defended her investigators who are being paid by the taxpayer to work on the case almost ten years on, saying: 'They are busy, they are active, they’ve been doing a huge number of things.'

MailOnline has contacted Channel 7 for comment.

It comes as Maddie's parents prepare to mark the 10th anniversary of their daughter's disappearance. She would now be 13

US criminal profiler Pat Brown is also set to appear on the programme this weekend

Kate and Gerry McCann have urged the documentary-makers to hand over their evidence to police 'immediately'